Unpopular Opinion: Abilities are the worst thing to happen to madden.

Personally, I strongly dislike abilities. I wish MUT was built in a way that didn’t require them. 

We all are here because team building with player cards is fun but Imo there are two types of people that play MUT. Those that like the arcade style of gameplay and those that hope for a true simulation style gameplay. The way MUT and Madden in general is built kind of chokeholds it to be more of an arcade style that needs abilities to balance and spread the competency within cards and us as players. It‘s also a cheap way to try and hid the terrible animation based mechanics of this game. 

Long story short I’ve come to the conclusion that Madden can’t make everyone happy with just one style of gameplay/game mode. I really hope they cater to both type of players next season but I highly doubt it because it would require a complete rebuild of the game and they haven’t done that since Madden 13.

Ngl I shouldn’t need pick artist or tip drill for my db to catch a pass that is tipped in the air. And I shouldn’t need to put gunslinger and PLE on my qb to get the ball to my receiver in less than 3 seconds. Another thing is no matter what a player should not be able to break a tackle every play from the first snap. And most annoying a player should not have to have a ko to get a knockout and should not just be able to tap them on the foot and have the ball come out. all of this makes the game unrealistic and annoying

For sure remove em. At least revamp them so they’re fair. 
 

but I’ve lost so many H2H games cuz of people who have Flash, Gus, sanders, Henry, etc, with loads of abilities. And it sucks that that is what makes a team good. I miss the times where people had teams of their favorite players and not good players. Like how many people actually like Gus Edwards or Coradelle Patterson irl? Not saying they’re bad, just that I hate it when people use a card cuz it’s good. Sorry for ranting 😅

TommyTime23 said:

Ngl I shouldn’t need pick artist or tip drill for my db to catch a pass that is tipped in the air. And I shouldn’t need to put gunslinger and PLE on my qb to get the ball to my receiver in less than 3 seconds. Another thing is no matter what a player should not be able to break a tackle every play from the first snap. And most annoying a player should not have to have a ko to get a knockout and should not just be able to tap them on the foot and have the ball come out. all of this makes the game unrealistic and annoying

This 100%. Cards need to be useable without abilities

H2H should be regular teams vs other regular teams. Cool the MCS guys win with stacked teams. Hit the random team generator and let’s see Henry and Dez battle using the Broncos vs Cardinals and not using abilities and x-factors

Abilities and x  factors make this more like nfl street or blitz. Also it creates a Meta and makes you decide if you want to run a player you like at a huge disadvantage or a small one.

acomplixsituation said:

Nah, I think you just titled it that way to get attention.

42 posts at the time of typing suggests that you haven't been around here for long, but opinions expressed calling for the removal of abilities is a common thing on these threads. And I've seen the viewpoint expressed on other places dedicated to Madden too.

Your entire account is saying stuff like this lol. This is like MrAgentSochi on literally every comment on my posts

TBH i think abilities are okay, but EA should add a new h2h mode that disables ALL abilities, kinda like a "hardcore" gamemode you see in some shooters, its just normal h2h but with no abilities, no x-factors, nothing

MUT requires 0 skill because of abilities. AKA x factor RBS ruined the game. You can literally have 0 skill and run a stretch that you know how to stop and it still goes for 6. I've been playing Superstar KO and regs and enjoyed actually playing games that require skill hahaha

I would keep abilities but change them so only certain players can get certain abilities and nerf most of them so they actually require some skill to use.

Yup! Get em outta here

It's the abilities that are ruining MUT. I like the program but people who never played Madden can just run the football 24-7 with Flash, quadfather and gus. You don't need skill for MUT anymore. Hopefully next Madden they make a mut h2h mode not requiring abilities. These days I just play regs and super star ko.

Wontonsoup said:

Personally, I strongly dislike abilities. I wish MUT was built in a way that didn’t require them. 

We all are here because team building with player cards is fun but Imo there are two types of people that play MUT. Those that like the arcade style of gameplay and those that hope for a true simulation style gameplay. The way MUT and Madden in general is built kind of chokeholds it to be more of an arcade style that needs abilities to balance and spread the competency within cards and us as players. It‘s also a cheap way to try and hid the terrible animation based mechanics of this game. 

Long story short I’ve come to the conclusion that Madden can’t make everyone happy with just one style of gameplay/game mode. I really hope they cater to both type of players next season but I highly doubt it because it would require a complete rebuild of the game and they haven’t done that since Madden 13.

Well put man.

There's no doubt that in a session of playing H2H you see those 2 types of players but, unfortunately, I think the rage quitting, spamming 12-year-old is the most common. EA just care about the $$ so they'll do what it takes for the game to make money. They've shown year after year after year that they don't give a rats ass about whether it's a good game, they care if it's a profitable one. MUT is going to get more and more unrealistic IMO. And don't forget they're on the record about making 23 "the most polished version yet" and all that BS about Franchise mode? 

Yeah, Madden is basically fucked until someone makes a game to compete and EA are forced into doing something. If 2k or Maximum Football actually gets around to releasing something, then we'll see.

DrChupo said:

I  think that since the release of abilities back on madden 20 the game has been dependent on “Discounted players“ and Aka X-Factors. If you advocate for them you have never played the good years of madden like 16’ 05’ 08 all amazing years of madden. If you look at any cool looking card with decent stats you will see at least 100 people saying “TRASH NO DISCOUNTED HRM OR QUAD STACK AND BAD RELEASE“ but nobody really cares about that. Whatever it think they should be removed altogether.

100 % agreed.

i personally never like abilities either.
from the day they added abilities it added a constant disbalance in the game,
as where you always needed the fitting ability to counteract your opponents abilites.
and if you guessed wrong youre automatically in a big disadvantage which is .

But the 2 biggest problem with abilities is, and will always be:

1.  that there will always be abilites that are just not counterable. and then all EA can do is raise them in ap or do whatever semi-fix which never works
2. that some abilites just ruin the game in general or dont make sense.
   for example: 
   1. since pick artist exists DBs generally drop more balls as if they unlearned how to catch
   2. since lurker exists LBs cant jump anymore
   3. why is HRM a thing? every QB in the nfl is able to audible any hot route. why do we need HRM for that.

i could go on and on here but i also think Abilites shoul go. all of them!
that is the only real and working fix that would solve the problem